T. Kingfisher 2020
- What it is
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Moving between parallel worlds · properly scary
- Genre
- Horror Fantasy
- Feels
- Chilling Unsettling Wry Defiant Tense
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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Only parallel worlds
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